I write poems and essays, novellas and novels. For some I don’t use AI at all. For others I use it as an assistant for research, analysis, and criticism. In a few, I’ve used it to generate text.
Whenever I use it, the ideas are mine: the plot, the characters, the names, the places, the structure.
AI is good for research, and when I use it to inform the writing I check the sources rigorously. If a source isn’t authoritative or credible, the information doesn’t get used. When I generate text, I substantially edit it afterwards. The one exception is a non-fiction book I produced entirely from generated text, under close direction on ideas, form, and content — a deliberate experiment in whether the method can convey ideas soundly.
The labels
Everything I publish here carries one of four labels:
No AI — written without any use of the tool.
AI-assisted — used for research, analysis, or criticism. The text is mine.
AI-generated & edited — portions of the text were generated, then substantially edited by me.
Fully AI-generated — the text is generated, under my direction.
Goodwin Avenue: AI-generated & edited
Goodwin Avenue is my first novel and was an experiment in the form from the start. I used AI as an assistant through most of the drafting and generated portions of the text, which I then edited. The shape, the people, the places, and the decisions about what the book is doing and how it’s woven together are mine. Some of the text is not. But every mistake in the book is mine and mine alone.
This use is disclosed to Amazon under their AI content policy.